#school law

[thedivorceguy]

Michigan Choice of School law. What do do when parents cannot agree.

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[scarinci]

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[bluchipmkt]

YOUR CHILDREN DESERVE TO BE SAFE AT SCHOOL

While schools, both public and private, including kindergarten through 12th grade, colleges, universities and trade schools as well, are not the guarantors of your child’s safety, the administrators, teachers, aides and other school personnel nevertheless still owe a duty to prevent foreseeable risks to your children.

Therefore, if the school playground equipment, for example, is defective and dangerous, or if a teacher has been hired regardless of a prior criminal history and assaults a student, or if a child who has a history of bullying has been bullying your child, parents may have a right to bring a case to protect their child’s interest if the child is under the age of 18. Children who have reached the age of 18 can bring their own cases. Teachers must competently supervise children and guard against foreseeable risks. For instance, in a situation where there are too many children and too few teachers on a field trip, and a student is injured, the school may be liable for these injuries under a theory of negligent supervision.....

Read more here:

http://mglassmanlaw.com/school/

Matthew Glassman can identify whether your school did its duty to prevent foreseeable risks.

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[notdistrictdialogue]

1 in 75 S.D. kindergarteners is not immunized

My daughter got her 2-month vaccinations a couple weeks ago.

I’d never seen the child cry so hard. She’s cute when she cries, so it wasn’t so bad for me. Really, I was just glad my arm wasn’t the target.

I hated getting shots as a kid and haven’t gotten much better as an adult. It wasn't the pain so much as the anticipation. We lived in a suburb but went to a family doctor in Milwaukee, and the 25-minute drive was torture. The Far Side cartoons on the wall could only distract me for so long.

On the other hand, I’ve never been stricken with polio, diphtheria, whooping cough or the rest, so I suppose it was worth it.

But about 1 in every 75 South Dakota children is taking that chance, according to 2010-11 data reported to the Centers for Disease Control.

A state survey that year found 135 kindergarteners at South Dakota public schools – 1 in 82 – had religious or medical exemptions from school-entry vaccinations.

At the state’s private schools, there were 22 with exemptions – 1 in every 34 kindergarteners.

An additional 15 kids had no vaccination record.

A study published online today identified South Dakota as one of just seven states that grant only permanent medical exemptions, as opposed to temporary. It also says South Dakota is one of 30 that make it "easy" to obtain such an exemption.

EdWeek noticed the study and had this to say:

School reopening is accompanied this year by unusually high outbreaks in whooping cough, and new research points to relaxed immunization requirements for entry to kindergarten as a potential cause.

In a study published online this afternoon in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, researchers from from the Hubert Department of Global Health at Emory University in Atlanta found rising numbers of medical exemptions, between 2004 and 2011, to vaccinations normally required to start school.

S.D. public schools, kindergarten, 2010-11

11,787 students

119 religious exemptions

16 medical exemptions

12 no vaccination record

S.D. private schools, kindergarten, 2010-11

751 students

17 religious exemptions

5 medical exemptions

3 no vaccination record

[notdistrictdialogue]

Andes Central and how not to cut costs

Like the rest of the state’s school districts, Andes Central faced some tough budgetary decisions last year when the Legislature cut per-student funding by 6.6 percent.

Part of their solution was to eliminate three extra-duty positions: concession supervisor, school paper advisor and yearbook advisor. Then, the administration informed other staff members that they would be picking up these extra duties – without additional pay.

Maybe that would have been fine if these “extra duties as assigned” took place during the school day and school year, but that was not the case.

Administrative Law Judge Catherine Duenwald ruled in May – yeah, I just noticed it now – that the district must pay these folks for their extra work. She wrote:

The school has no authority to assign to teachers “other duties” when the duties are carried out beyond the school year and number of days listed in the contract. If that was the case, then the school could require the teachers to teach extra classes, coach football, give music lessons, wax floors, paint walls, and generally work during the summer without pay.

[iflythestorm]

Interesting Education Week discussion forum about a court case where students were let off after creating fake MySpace accounts for two principals. 

I've had a colleague in my school endure a Facebook site created simply to bash her. 

What's the remedy?

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